HACK LINUX
Security
Session Chair: Bryan C. Andregg, Red Hat
Enhancements to the Linux Kernel for Blocking Buffer Overflow Based
Attacks
Massimo Bernaschi, Italian National Research Council; Emanuele Gabrielli and
Luigi V. Mancini, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Domain and Type Enforcement for Linux
Serge Hallyn and Phil Kearns, College of William and Mary
Piranha Audit: Kernel Enhancements And Utilities To Improve Audit/Logging
Vincenzo Cutello, Emilio Mastriani, and Francesco Pappalardo, University of Catania, Italy
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EXTREME LINUX
File Systems and IO
Session Chair: Walt Ligon, Clemson University
PVFS: A Parallel File System for Linux Clusters
Philip H. Carns and Walter B. Ligon III, Clemson University;
Robert B. Ross and Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory
Linux Disk Subsystem I/O Performance
Thomas M. Ruwart, University of Minnesota
IO for Large Scale Systems Panel
Moderated by Walt Ligon.
Panelists to be announced.
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USE LINUX
Linux Tools and Applications
Large Scale Linux Configuration with LCFG
Paul Anderson and Alastair Scobie, University of Edinburgh
Perspecitive on Printing
Ben Woodard and Mark Pruett, VA Linux Systems
Building a Self-Contained Autoconfiguring Linux System on an ISO9660 File System
Klaus Knopper, KNOPPER.NET
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HACK LINUX
Kernel Performance II
Session Chair: Bryan C. Andregg, Red Hat
Lockmeter: Highly Informative Instrumentation for Spin Locks in the Linux Kernel
Ray Bryant, IBM Linux Technology Center; John Hawkes, SGI
(30 minutes)
The Elements of Cache Programming Style
Chris Sears, Google, Inc.
(1 hour)
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EXTREME LINUX
Networks and performance
Session Chair: William Saphir, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories
Maximizing Beowulf Performance
Robert G. Brown, Duke University
Software Distributed Shared Memory over Virtual Interface
Architecture: Implemenation and Performance
Muralidharan Rangarajan and Liviu Iftode, Rutgers University
Performance Comparison of LAM/MPI, MPICH, and MVICH on a Linux Cluster
Connected by a Gigabit Ethernet Network
Hong Ong and Paul A. Farrell, Kent State University
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USE LINUX
Linux Solutions
The Linux Terminal Server Project: Thin Clients and Linux
Jim McQuillan, Linux Terminal Server Project
(30 minutes)
Invited Talk
Eazel and The Nautilus Project: Bringing the Power of Linux to More Users
Darin Adler, Eazel Inc.
(1 hour)
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HACK LINUX
Networking/Clustering
Session Chair: Bryan C. Andregg, Red Hat
A PPPoE Implementation for Linux
David Skoll, Roaring Penguin Software Inc.
Linux-HA Heartbeat System Design
Alan Robertson, SuSE Labs
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Work-in-Progress Reports (WiPs)
Do you have interesting work you would like to share, or a cool idea that is
not yet ready to be published? The ALS audience provides valuable discussion
and feedback. Presentations of student work are particularly welcome. To
schedule your short report, send email to
alswips@usenix.org.
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USE LINUX
Linux Integration
Introducing Linux File Services into a Windows NT Network
Richard R. Morgan, VistaRMS, Inc.
Plex86: An i80x86 Virtual Machine
Kevin P. Lawton, MandrakeSoft
Gaining the Middleground: A Linux-based Open-Source Middleware Initiative
Greg Wettstein and Johannes Grosen, North Dakota State University
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